By McCoulskey H.B. No. 2315 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requirements for alternative certification of teachers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 13.035(b), Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (b) The rules must provide for the persons being certified 1-7 to satisfactorily complete: 1-8 (1) any examinations required generally for 1-9 certification, except that a person certified under this section 1-10 shall be exempted from taking any examination or portion of an 1-11 examination that is designed to test knowledge of pedogogical 1-12 methods, history of education, or child psychology if the person 1-13 has not received formal educational training for a course in the 1-14 subject area; 1-15 (2) a one-year internship under the supervision of an 1-16 experienced, certified teacher; 1-17 (3) teaching method and classroom management training 1-18 prescribed by the board; and 1-19 (4) an appropriate number of semester hours credit, as 1-20 determined by the State Board of Education, from an accredited 1-21 institution of higher education and in the area in which the person 1-22 is to be teaching. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.